Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Greetings

[Bogdan M. <dag...@gm...>]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Rodrigo Amorim Ferreira
<ro...@co...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Rodrigo and I want to help the Stellarium project. I work
> with Linux for over 12 years, in networking (project, implementation,
> etc), programming (C/C++), documentation (LaTeX, XML, SGML), Web (sites,
> languages, frameworks, etc), and database (PostgreSQL).
>
> My areas of expertise are Chemistry, Physics and Computer Science,
> resulting in Bioinformatics and Education. Astronomy is my favorite
> hobby.

Hello Rodrigo.

I apologize on the behalf of the development team for the late answer
- it seems that most of the developers are occupied with preparing for
the holidays. :)

This is a very impressive list of credentials indeed. It's nice to
have another programmer on board. If you are looking for programming
tasks, you can have a look at the bug tracker and the "blueprints" in
Launchpad.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/stellarium
If you want to start working on a task, it's a good idea to write to
the mailing list first to make sure that no-one else is working on it
and that it is something that we actually need. (The Blueprint tracker
is open to all and un-related people often mistakenly use it to submit
feature requests.)

> I saw yesterday in the Stellarium website that the project needs someone
> to help manage the translation process. If you want I can help in this
> area.

You need to talk to Matthew Gates about this. I think he will join the
discussion these days. :)

Until now, the main page of the website (stellarium.org) was
translated mostly manually - different people got the .php file,
translated it and some of the team posted the translation to the
website. The problem is that the person who kept in touch with the
translators has mostly left the project and the translated pages are
out of date. At the very least, this process needs to be re-started.

There is an idea of creating a gettext translation template to the
website, uploading it to a version control repository (e.g.
Stellarium's Bazaar repository in Launchpad) and then using the
Translations feature in Launchpad to provide a convenient web-based
interface for translation. Matthew Gates may (or may not :) be working
on this at the moment.

Happy Holidays!

Regards,
Bogdan Marinov